'Yes,' Ginny
whispered, nodding firmly. Draco lowered his head to her waiting lips
and kissed her more passionately than he had before. She wrapped her
arms around his neck and pulled his body onto hers, loving the feel
of her breasts meeting his smooth chest. His lips left hers and
nuzzled her neck, trailing kisses all down her body until he reached
her stomach.

He was about to
enter her when he paused and she could feel his hesitation. He pulled
himself off her and she was left lying alone on the bed, unsure and
confused.

'Baby, what's
wrong?' she asked, sitting up as he dressed himself.

'I'm lousy,'
he said as he zipped up his pants.

'What?' she
asked confusedly.

'I'm a sad
excuse for a guy. I bring you here just to sleep with you and we
haven't even gone out together or anything,' Draco explained.
Ginny's mouth dropped open. She couldn't believe what she was
hearing. Draco Malfoy, the smooth, suave Slytherin was worried about
being a romantic. She didn't mind of course. It was just...
unexpected.

'We can go out if
you like,' she suggested, pulling her clothes towards her. Once
they were both straightened up Draco led her towards the door.

'Wait, what about
your parents?' she asked worriedly.

'Relax, they're
not here,' he said reassuringly, his hand at her back as he guided
her downstairs. He left her in the living room as he went into the
next room to fetch something. She wasn't expecting someone to come
out of the other room.

The man who stood
before her was filthy and covered with hair. His robes were tattered
and she had the inkling that they were stained with blood.

'Such a pretty
girl,' he muttered, the stink of stale bread on his breath. He
crossed the room and grabbed her around the neck, fingering her hair
with his long nails. She let out a scream as the nails dug into her
neck and Draco came running in from the other room.

He pulled out his
wand and yelled something at the man but Ginny couldn't tell what
spell he'd used because stars were exploding in front of her eyes.
The man was sent flying into the cabinet and Draco caught her just in
time before she fainted.

When she came to the
sharp pain of the cut on her neck stung and tears burned in her eyes.
Draco held her to his chest as she sobbed, her tears staining his
shirt as he brushed her hair away from her face.

'Its okay baby,
I'm here,' he whispered soothingly and she choked back sobs to
look up into his eyes. She saw warmth there as he wiped her eyes and
helped her to stand upright. Suddenly the door was flung open and
there on the threshold stood none other than Lucius Malfoy.

'Well well, what
is this?' he said loudly, his voice echoing through the empty
house. He fixed his cold, gray eyes on his son who had one arm around
Ginny's waist and the other clutching his wand.

'Father, I can
explain,' Draco began but was shushed. Lucius's eyes flitted over
the state of his house and the man who lay unconscious in the smashed
remains of his finest cabinet, glass littered over the wooden floor.

'I bet you can,
Draco. And I'm dying to hear why you brought a blood traitor here
to demolish my house,' he said hollowly.

Draco's mouth
curved into a snarl and he approached his father.

'She isn't a
blood traitor! And I didn't intend to wreck the house but Greyback
attacked her,' he hissed.

'As well he
should. We can't have that sort of filth in our home. This is where
we eat, Draco,' Lucius said coldly, eyeing Ginny with disgust.

Draco whipped his
wand up and pointed it at his father. Lucius took one look at his son
and laughed, the sound of it ringing through the halls.

'Get rid of her,
Draco. I have company and if you don't want her to be dinner then I
suggest you clear out,' Lucius said briskly. He flung his cloak
over a hook and swept out of the room. Draco held Ginny close and
turned on the spot and he felt the suffocating sensation of being
twisted through time and space into darkness.

'I'm sorry about
him,' Draco apologised as he pulled Ginny through Hogsmeade
Village. He led them inside Madam Puddifoot's tea shop where they
weren't likely to run into anyone. Draco waved the waitress away
and pulled Ginny into his lap on one of the lounges.

'So, what do you
want to do?' he asked playfully.

'You,' she
whispered cheekily.

'Besides that,'
he said.

'I don't know,'
she sighed.

'I have an idea,'
Draco said.

'Okay,' she
replied.

He took her hand and
Disapparated, reappearing in an empty field. A broom lay against the
fence. He pulled a reluctant Ginny over to the broom and helped her
on in front of him.

'I'm not too
sure about this,' Ginny said hesitantly.

'Don't worry,'
he whispered in her ear. He kicked off from the ground and she
screamed, her breath getting lost in the wind that whipped her red
hair back from her face. He steered the broom over the treetops and
into the sky, soaring higher and higher into the clouds.

She screamed against
as the moisture of the cloud hit them. Draco soared down to the
ground again, coming to a halt next to a tree. He helped her onto a
branch and sat next to her.

'Didn't expect
this when you woke up this morning?' he said thoughtfully.

And he was right.
Ginny hadn't expected anything. She hadn't expected to fall for
Draco. She hadn't expected to be ready for sex at sixteen. She
hadn't expected to be putting her whole life on the line for the
enemy. But she was.

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